Owen C. Ross, a 25-year-old male police officer with the Huntington Police Department, was killed in the line of duty in Huntington, West Virginia, on August 4, 1901. Ross was serving as the driver of the department's patrol wagon and was transporting a prisoner to jail following a local offense when he was confronted by a prominent local political figure who had also obtained a commission as a Deputy United States Marshal. The confrontation was not an attempt to make another arrest. Instead, th ...
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